Improvement in paper boxes



A. D. SCHAEFFER.

Paper-Box.

No. 195,904. Patented Oct. 9, I877.

WiTN ESSES y ATTORNEYS NPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D Q

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ARTHUR D. SOHAEFFER, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, ROBT. A.ROGERS, D. E. MEAD, AND H. E. MEAD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN PAPER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,904, dated October9, 1877; application filed November 28 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. D. SCHAEFFER, of Dayton, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements inPaperBoxes or Dishes and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same,

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification, andin which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a piece of pasteboard or othermaterial out and slitted to form angular portions, and thence slittingthe trun cated portions thus formed to the depth it is desired to impartto the sides and ends of the box, substantially as hereinafter morefully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, Arefers to a sheet or piece of pasteboard, orstout paper, of a rectangular shape, the corners of which are outobliquely or diagonally to the right-angular portions or sides and endsof the paper or pasteboard, as seen at a a a a. The object of thuscutting the corners of the pasteboard or paper is to cause the upperends of the overlapping and underlapping portions of the box to standflush with each other, as seen in Fig. 2. The truncated portions of thepaper a a a are slitted, as at b b b b, about midway of the diagonal orinclined surfaces thereof, to the depth it is desired to impart to thesides and ends of the box, and by which the said sides and ends areformed. Fold or crease the sides and ends of the paper to the depthpermitted by the slits b b b b, and then overlap the ends, care beingtaken to have their upper edges stand flush with each other, after whichpaste the same together, and the box is made. A

cover or lid, 0, may be affixed to the box or dish, by paste orotherwise, to inclose or protect its contents.

As above intimated, this box or dish is particularly designed for use instores, to put lard, butter, &c., in, in retailing it, and possessescheapness-a great desideratum-and answers the purpose for which it isintended equally as well as a metallic vessel or dish.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent is A box or dish constructed from flexible material,the corners of which are truncated, as at a a, and the said truncatedportions to a slitted, as at b b, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my .own I hereunto aflix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR D. SCHAEFFER.

Witnesses:

ROBERT A. ROGERS, P. 1). W. SCHAEFFER.

